I'm really bloody tired this morning and had to open up at work and perky morning people keep trying to engage me in conversation. Instead I will sit here with my tea and read Buffy fanfiction on the sly. Thanks for that buddy. Many happy returns.

Happy Birthday, Jossir. I brung you a Birthday quote. It's a long one (and sorry to take up so much black room, everybody) - but I think it's a good 'un.

(And no matter what age you get to be, you will still always be younger than I. Good for you.)

"Run fast, stand still. This, the lesson from lizards. For all writers. Observe almost any survival creature, you see the same. Jump, run, freeze. In the ability to flick like an eyelash, crack like a whip, vanish like steam, here this instant, gone the next—life teems the earth. And when that life is not rushing to escape, it is playing statues to do the same. See the hummingbird, there, not there. As thought arises and blinks off, so this thing of summer vapor; the clearing of a cosmic throat, the fall of a leaf. And where it was—a whisper.

What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping. In between the scurries and flights, what? Be a chameleon, ink- blend, chromosome change with the landscape. Be a pet rock, lie with the dust, rest in the rainwater in the filled barrel by the drainspout outside your grandparents’ window long ago."

"So Owl wrote...and this is what he wrote:
HIPY PAPY BTHETHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY
Pooh looked on admiringly.
"I'm just saying 'A Happy Birthday'," said Owl carelessly.
"It's a nice long one," said Pooh, very much impressed by it."

Happy birthday! Sorry I didn't get a chance to wish you a happy birthday yesterday, it happened to be my husband's birthday yesterday and I didn't get a chance. I hope that you have a year filled with friends, family and love. And cake.